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VIEWS IN ARDSLEY BURIAL PARK. PHILADELPHIA. 
ADVERTISING CEMETERY CARE AND MANAGEMENT 
The newer modern lawn cemeteries 
are making increasing use of adver- 
tising, and some excellent specimens 
of cemetery printed matter designed 
to set forth the beauty of grounds 
and care in management, have 
reached us. The accompanying illus- 
trations are from two recent speci- 
mens of this literature. 
Ardsley Burial Park at Glenside, a 
suburb of Philadelphia, was laid out 
in 1907 and has been developed con- 
sistently on the lawn plan. It con- 
tains 90 acres of naturally beautiful 
ground, and as our picture indicates 
is carefully kept and well developed. 
The soil is naturally dry and the 
high altitude gives a certain natural 
drainage: every section has been 
carefully .graded so that no water can 
stay on the surface, gutters with in- 
lets have been constructed and a per- 
fect underground drainage system in- 
sures a dry grave under all circum- 
stances. ' 
A complete water system connects 
with the mains of the Springfield 
Water Compau}'. Hydrants are located 
in numerous places convenient for the 
proper care of the cemetery, and for 
use of the plotholders in watering 
floral tributes or caring for growing 
plants. The plots vary in size accord- 
ing to the number of graves con- 
tained; the average sizes are 9 ft. x 
12 ft. and 12 ft. x 16 ft. Prices vary 
from $22 to $30 for two grave lots to 
$132 to $1,200 for 12 grave lots. 
W. T. B. Roberts is president and 
A\’. N. Kiefer superintendent of Ards- 
ley. 
Elmhurst, the new lawn cemetery 
at Joliet, has issued a very attractive 
folder to promote the idea of per- 
petual care and other conveniences of 
modern cemetery service. The text 
of an admirable little talk on per- 
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